Result of AGM

RNS Number : 2284W

NewRiver REIT PLC

14 August 2020

 

NewRiver REIT plc

("NewRiver" or the "Company")

Results of the AGM

The Directors of NewRiver are pleased to announce that at its Annual General Meeting held on Friday 14th August 2020, all of the proposed resolutions as set out in the Notice of Annual General Meeting were passed by means of a poll. The final voting figures are set out below:

Resolution		Votes for	%	Votes against	%		Total Votes Cast		Votes withheld*
1	To receive the Directors' Report, Auditor's Report & Financial Statements for the year ended 31 March 2020	169,209,785	99.98	33,990	0.02		169,243,775		1,329,414
2	That the Directors' Remuneration Report contained within the Company's 2020 Annual Report on pages 100 to 108 be approved.	170,325,322	99.88	200,855	0.12		170,526,177		47,013
3	That Margaret Ford, being eligible and offering herself for re-election, be re-elected as a Director of the Company.	155,650,385	91.33	14,783,750	8.67		170,434,135		139,054
4	That Colin Rutherford, being eligible and offering himself for re-election, be re-elected as a Director of the Company.	170,431,112	99.99	3,024	0.01		170,434,136		139,054
5	That Allan Lockhart, being eligible and offering himself for re-election, be re-elected as a Director of the Company.	169,001,720	99.92	140,394	0.08		169,142,114		1,431,076
6	That Mark Davies, being eligible and offering himself for re-election, be re-elected as a Director of the Company.	170,285,253	99.92	139,883	0.08		170,425,136		148,054
7	That Kay Chaldecott, being eligible and offering herself for re-election, be re-elected as a Director of the Company.	170,357,144	99.96	67,823	0.04		170,424,967		148,223
8	That Alastair Miller, being eligible and offering himself for re-election, be re-elected as a Director of the Company.	170,359,963	99.96	65,004	0.04		170,424,967		148,223
9	That PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP be re-appointed as auditor of the Company.	170,412,358	99.95	83,376	0.05		170,495,734		77,456
10	That the Audit Committee be and is hereby authorised to fix the remuneration of the auditor.	170,498,331	99.99	15,579	0.01		170,513,910		59,280
11	That the Directors of the Company be authorised to declare and pay all dividends of the Company as interim dividends.	170,519,782	99.99	13,408	0.01		170,533,190		40,000
12	That the Directors' Remuneration Policy, set out on pages 91 to 99 of the 2020 Annual Report, be approved.	160,581,406	94.19	9,902,752	5.81		170,484,158		89,031
13	To authorise the Directors to allot shares.	169,515,900	99.39	1,039,147	0.61		170,555,047		18,143
14	To disapply pre-emption rights.	170,364,082	99.90	170,396	0.10		170,534,478		38,712
15	To disapply pre-emption rights in addition to those disapplied by resolution 14.	169,029,430	99.12	1,504,194	0.88		170,533,624		39,565
16	To authorise the Directors to offer shareholders the right to elect for scrip dividends instead of cash dividends	170,397,754	99.91	157,202	0.09		170,554,956		18,234
17	To authorise market purchases by the Company of its shares.	169,195,661	99.19	1,377,493	0.81		170,573,154		35
18	To authorise the calling of general meetings on 14 days' notice.	166,137,430	97.41	4,426,078	2.59		170,563,508		9,682

AGM Notes:

*A "vote withheld" is not a vote in law and cannot be counted in the calculation of the votes for and against a resolution.

As at the date of the Annual General Meeting, the total number of shares with voting rights in the Company is 306,278,160. This excludes 2,646,998 shares in the Employee Benefit Trust. The scrutineer of the poll was Link Asset Services.

In accordance with Listing Rule 9.6.2, NewRiver has submitted a copy of the resolutions dealing with the special business put to shareholders at the AGM today to the National Storage Mechanism facility and these will shortly be available for inspection at https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism .

For further information

NewRiver REIT plc			[phone]
Tom Loughran (Head of Investor Relations)

 

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